What were the other claims?

Kern County Superior Court Judge Alisa Knight ruled in favour of Mr Freeman as the son of Charles Manson Jr, who killed himself in 1993.

She rejected a claim by Matt Lentz, a Los Angeles musician who said he had been fathered by the murderer during an orgy in Wisconsin, and that Manson had named him as his sole beneficiary in a 2017 will.

Also dismissed was a will submitted by Michael Channels, a former pen pal of Manson who argued that the killer had disinherited his natural family and made him his sole beneficiary in 2002.